John Leonard

Abt 1615 - 1676  (~ 61 years)

• Name	John Leonard  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1615  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Feb 1676 - 24 Feb 1676	Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I3026	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2021

  
  

  Family	Sarah Heald   d. 23 Nov 1711, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
  Marriage	12 Sep 1640	Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts   [3, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Leonard,   b. 13 Dec 1645, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts d. 20 Mar 1676, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 30 years) + 2. Mary Leonard,   b. 14 Sep 1647   d. 1724, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 76 years) + 3. Benjamin Leonard,   b. 5 Sep 1654, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts d. 21 Dec 1724, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F877	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Killed by Indians during King Philip's War. "The English origin of John Leonard has not been ascertained, and if related to James Leonard of Taunton, Mass., nothing has been found to indicate it." [Hale, House and Related Families] From a Wikitree page about John Leonard: "He was an early settler of the town of Springfield, MA [...] He was chosen surveyor, 26 March 1640, to see that the highways were cleared and kept in repair. He was one of the town appraisers in 1645 [...] "He was killed by Indians in Springfield 21 February 1675/766 during King Philip's War. 'He was killed by an Indian arrow while crossing the Agawam River to go to the assistance of relatives.' "He was living in Springfield in 1636. He is not mentioned in The Great Migration Begins. He had 15 children. He is the progenitor of the Springfield Leonard line. No relationship is known to the James Leonard line, although they apparently communicated and knew each other. The Springfield Leonard line is followed in the Giles Memorial Genealogical Memoirs by John Adams Vinton (Boston: Dutton, 1864), pp. 280-316. The early generations are also covered in thorough fashion by Donald Lines Jacobus in Hale, House, and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley."

  
  

• Sources

  [S700] "John Keep of Longmeadow," by John Keep and Bob Warner. [S3194] Genealogy of the Bliss family in America: From about the year 1550 to 1880 by John Homer Bliss. Boston, 1881. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952., year only. [S140] Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, online database at americanancestors.org.